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Harrisville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sherburne town. It lies in ZIP code area 13460. It lies near Hunts Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Sherburne quadrangle. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Harrisville within Chenango County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrisville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Harrisville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Harrisville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 August 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
16 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Harrisville: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Norwich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sheburne Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Webbs Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chenango County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sherburne1.9 miles17
Columbus4.8 miles17
Sherburne Four Corners4.9 miles18
North Norwich5.5 miles19
Smyrna5.7 miles18
Galena5.9 miles19
Chenango Lake6.7 miles17
Plasterville7.2 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q34679361The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952290. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.